7 articles in this issue
G. L. Huxley
The Phrygian inscription on the tomb at Yazilikaya (8th century) gives Midas the titles wanax and lawagtas, paralled in Mycenaean, and there were strong connections between his dynasty and Greek Aeolis.
Mimnermus describes the colonists of Colophon and Smyrna as coming directly from Pylos; they were the descendants of Arcadian Aepytus, so the verse can be restored ??p?t??? te ?????.
Charles Rowan Beye
Euripides portrays Alcestis as cold and demanding and Admetus as an isolated figure caught between conflicting demands, neither as an attractive or sympathetic character.
Antonio Tovar
A number of case studies in problematic lines of Euripides’ Hecuba illustrate, against much modern scholarship, the inferiority of the late mss. L and P.
Morton Smith
A manuscript of the 16th/17th century now at Brown University contains a collection of sermons arranged in the order of their use in the liturgical year.
Speros Vryonis, Jr
Of the various problems that undermined Byzantine strength in the 11th century, the two most serious were the conflict between the landed military aristocracy and the civil administration, and the religious and ethnic conflicts of the diverse national gro... see more
George P. Galavaris
The lead seal of the 11th/12th century here published offers an image of the Virgin Kiriotissa, but the inscription gives Kanikliotisa; this must invoke an icon of Mary that would have been in the Kanikleion monastery.